Language diversity, problem or resource?
Subtitle: a social and educational perspective on language minorities in the United States
By: Sandra Lee McKay and Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, editors.
Contributors: McKay, Sandra.; Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia.
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Linguistic minorities -- United States.; Multilingualism -- United States.; Language and education -- United States.; Language policy -- United States.; Language planning -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Orientations in language planning / Richard Ruíz; title: Understanding the American linguistic mosaic : a historical overview of language maintenance and language shift / Jean Molesky; title: Language minorities in the United States in the 1980s : the evidence from the 1980 census / Dorothy Waggoner; title: Language situation of Mexican Americans / Guadalupe Valdés; title: Language situation of Puerto Rican / Ana Celia Zentella; title: Language situation of Cuban Americans / Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy; title: Language situation of Chinese Americans / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong; title: Language situation of Filipino Americans / Rosita Galang; title: Language situation of Korean Americans / Bok-Lim Kim; title: Language situation of Vietnamese Americans / Chuong Hoang Chung.; title: Second language acquisition theory relevant to language minorities : Cummins, Krashen, and Schumann / Mary McGroaty; title: Weighing educational alternatives / Sandra McKay; title: Educational rights of language minorities / Sua-ling Cynthia Wong.